Saw.



' PATENTED APR. 14, 1903.

J. H. MINER.

SAW.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 23. 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT 4 OFFICE.

JAMES H. MINER, OF LUMBER'ION, MISSISSIPPI, 'ASSIGNOR TO IDA M. MINER.

SAW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 0. 725,469, dated April 14, 1903.

' Application filed July 23, 1902. Serial No. 116,735. (No model.)

I To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES H. MINER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lumberton, Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saws, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in saws, and more particularly to the manner of securing removable teeth in or to the sawbody.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a. saw, showing one of the teeth in place. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the saw with the tooth and spring removed. Fig. 3 is a detail of the lining-spring. Fig. 4 is a view of the tooth. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 1. In the drawings, A designates-the body of. the saw, having a plurality of tooth-holding recesses A, only one of which, however, is shown. This recess is preferably of the shape shown, having side edges which are for the most part parallel, the lower, however, being provided with a recess 0. B represents a holding-spring which is shaped to conform to g the recess of the saw and to a portion of the meeting edges of the saw-body and spring andthe spring and tooth are dovetailed into each other, as shown in Fig. 5.

In assembling the parts the spring is forced into the recess or socket until the bend springs into the recess 0, when the spring will be securely held in position. The, tooth is then forced in until the bond 1) thereof springs into the notch E, when the tooth will be se- I curely held.

In' removing the tooth a pointed instru-- ment may be inserted at point D and the tooth readily pried out.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In combination, a saw-body having a socket, a tooth held therein, and a steel lining between the tooth and sawbody, substantially as described.

2. In combination, a saw-body having a tooth-socket, ali'ning-spring fitting the same and having a projecting bend engaging a cor responding recess in the body, a tooth held 

